Esme Weijun Wang is an award-winning author, essayist, and mental health advocate. She is best known for her critically acclaimed memoir The Collected Schizophrenias, which won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of the novel The Border of Paradise and the essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays. Esme has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and other publications. She has also been a guest on NPR, BBC, and other radio programs. Esme is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a PhD in English from the University of California, San Diego. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford and a former Michener-Copernicus Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Esme is a passionate advocate for mental health awareness and destigmatization. She is the founder of the mental health non-profit The Stability Project, which works to provide resources and support to those living with mental illness. She is also a board member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).